By Dr. James Perkinson (right), a sermon on Luke 24:13-35
I want to begin with a word of prayer before we jump into the gospel for today, but to facilitate that, first—a story about prayer and some necessary preliminaries. I have a half-Filipino poet friend in Detroit who tells of his first experiences of the Lord’s prayer, while growing up. Whenever he heard “Our Father who art in Heaven,” his five-year-old vernacular ears could not compute “art” as anything other than what happened when you put paint on paper, so his five year-old mind supplied a little slurred “n” in there, and what he actually thought he heard was “Our Father, who aren’t in heaven.” And it rattled him; he couldn’t figure it out; he says he kept thinking, “Well, where is he then?” If not there, then where? But he gradually came to hear it as a positive affirmation: a God who “aren’t” in heaven, because that God’s “place” is really right here, with us. A deep intuition, I would say, for all—what I would call place-based confession. Continue reading “Place-Based Resurrection”
Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don’t ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.
By Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
From Audre Lorde’s “
Katerina Friesen, Rooted and Grounded Conference,Chapel Message, April 21, 2017
From Christina Gregg in an 
From Vaclav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless, quoted by Chris Hedges in his always challenging column (“
The poor tell us who we are,
By Grace Aheron.
Radical Discipleship 